SHIT HISTORICAL FIGURES SAID

We tend to romanticize historical figures, that is bullshit.

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[spn-fandom-breathing-heavily]

not even risking that shit

[codyslipring-deactivated2015060]

scrolled past this, re-evaluated my life, then SCROOOLLLED back up and hit the damn reblog button. 

[isamaegreenleaf]

Last comment same thing. Sorry to the next person who sees this. I just can’t risk it. I have things I need to do before my life becomes hell. Lol

[nnfirnid]

man i fucking hate yall who tf put this up knowing damn well we all gonna reblog it im heated im really sick af bout this 

[modelinterrupted]

I don’t play that shit lol sorry

[latenightsugar]

WHyyyy

[badgyal-k-deactivated20190901]

Sorry everyone

[just-jay25]

If only if only the woodpecker sighs the bark on the tree was as soft as the sky why the wolf waits below hungry and lonely he cries to the moon if only if only

[grandpaq]

I’ll be damned if I end up like ol boys dirty, rotten, pig stealing great great grandfather

[humourspot]

He’s such a smart man

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[historical-nonfiction]

Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

Moderata Fonte, pseudonym of Modesta Pozzo (1555-1592). She was an Italian writer from Venice who wrote religious and romantic poetry. Modesta is best known, however, for the posthumously published The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men (via historical-nonfiction)

[writerswritecompany]

Happy Birthday, Ashleigh Brilliant, born 9 December 1933

10 Quotes

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy.

It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

Please don’t lie to me,unless,you’re sure I’ll never find out the truth.

It’s nice to be able to make a living on your own thoughts.

It’s hopeless! Tomorrow there’ll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

Brilliant is an English-born American author and syndicated cartoonist. He is best known for Pot-Shots, his single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks. His books include I May Not Be Totally Perfect, but Parts of Me Are Excellent, and Other Brilliant Thoughts and Appreciate Me Now, and Avoid the Rush: Yet More Brilliant Thoughts.

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by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

[quoms-190514]

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash—and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed.

nathaniel hawthorne whining and pissing himself in eighteen fifty five over the fact that women were writing better and more popular stories than his shit shit shit trash shit piece of shit awful didactic shit novels (via sashayed)

this again bc //selfie culture// in 1855

(via bananaleaves)

[lilbumps]

women are not welcome in the creative department of disney in 1958

[vroomvomovary]

Omg I can’t

[vroomvomovary]

I want this on my blog again

[geniusbee]

This…is the greatest story ever told

[sea-change]

they also went to the louvre together to, like, check out the dicks on statues for comparison just to calm scott the fuck down.

(i can just picture them, scott being his usual neurotic self, and ernest just like, ‘give me strength.  are you fucking kidding me?  i nearly died in the war.  i have a fucking medal of bravery.  and we’re looking at cocks together.  gatsby can only take you so far, my friend.  you better write another goddamn masterpiece soon.’)

[shithistoricalfiguressaid]

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney, American animator, film producer, director  and co-founder of Walt Disney Productions

[shithistoricalfiguressaid]

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley, writer, known for his novels including “Brave New World”

[shithistoricalfiguressaid]

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Sophia Loren, widely recognized as Italy's most renowned and honored actress

[shithistoricalfiguressaid]

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States of America

[shithistoricalfiguressaid]

Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Aldous Huxley, writer, known for his novels including “Brave New World”

[shithistoricalfiguressaid]

The Indians' disappearance from the human family will be no great loss to the world. I do not think them, as a race, worth preserving.

- Henry Clay, Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829

[shithistoricalfiguressaid]

The concept of women having rights is so ludicrous, that we may as well extend rights to animals, vegetables, minerals, and even the most apparently contemptible clod of earth.

writer Thomas Taylor, notable for his translations of ancient Greek philosophy, in a response to "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft; it was not only a phrase, it was a whole book: A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes.

[ghagiel]

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

Sheila Heti, “How Should A Person Be?” (via ghagiel)

[shithistoricalfiguressaid]

You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.

- Gianni Versace, fashion designer and founder of the fashion house Versace

[sharkyteeth-blog-blog]

Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.

Countess Markievicz, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice.  (via partywitch)